I may not have this quite right and have simplified it too much, but my feeling is that subjective reality is very similar to believing that the world you live in, is basically all created by you, just like the dreams you have at night are all created by you.
When you're dreaming, unless you are able to have lucid dreams, you generally don't realize you're dreaming, and it's also quite hard to believe that your mind can come up with the crazy stories that happen during them.
So what if life is basically one big dream? Eventually, you will wake up (at death I guess?) and see that.
I think there's a lot more to it than this, but if you start there, the other stuff starts to fall into place. I was able to start wrapping my head around this when I read "The Disappearance of the Universe" by Gary Renaud. I can't say as I really liked the book completely as it actually gave me some nightmares and was somewhat disturbing to me as I read it. I might try to read it again now (it's been close to a year) as I've learned a lot in that time.
But even without "liking" the book, there were some very interesting ideas in it, such as the whole life being similar to a dream. It sure does explain a lot, especially the power of intention.
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